The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-04
WITCHES OF THE PRESENT.
THE GYPSY QUEEN DIES AGAIN AND
THE BUSINESS rs PLAYED OUT.
heb Iueersoi and Atheism Has Spelled tt
Clairveyaucc Down 20 n eB-Cent mnsis-
How n Fortune Teller Saved Mans Lifo.

NtctrVcybucc uoWu 10 - Sb-Nnht hfnsts-
How n Fortune Teller Saved . Mans Life.
A despatch from Boston says that Mary,
the Gypsy Queen, 10 dead. This Is sad. but not
particularly startling. The Gypsy Queen has
confirmed habit OF dying. Tho only person
who can In any way rival tho Gypsy Queen In
this accomplishment is George washlngton's
body servant. It would probably be IN even
thing between tho two Of them CD to which
dies the most frequently and in the most DIFF
ferent places. It turns out upon investigation
that this particular time Mary, the Gypsy
Queen, is or was, fortune teller OF repute In
the north end OF Boston, and that she has q
barrel Of money. and paid fifty cents week
for a room. She had thousand dollars In
bills hidden under her pillow and other thou
sands laid away In the bank. tho police say,
and she fell out Of second-story window and
broke her neck: sad ending, indeed for one
who seems TO have had 30 long and successful
q career as humbuRger OF her fellow men.
This Mary is probably one Of tho last Of her
sort. for the Gypsy Queen business is about
played out, according to the story Of one who
has devoted herself to that and other branches
Of the humbug business since early childhood,
having been bred thereto. she says. by dotfnR
mother, who lived In the woods and kept .
witch shop. Said this disciple Of mystery to
Sun reporter yesterday:
Business isn't what It used to be. People
have been gradually dropping religious ideas
lately and following after Bob Ingersoll and
men like him. You have no idea how he has
cut into our business. There is always more
or Of less superstition about religion. and any
The fortune telling business Is always better
IN deeply RELIGIOUS communities than IN God
GnGa se vlas s1 witch DIVIDED WIN
enes s,i IL fact Tor those who came under her
Influence. the witch beat the parson. The9
hs
which they are told not to NEEDLE:
and being let. alone, about all the patronage
we get comes from young grls, and md OLD ioos;;
the more nor, Ignorant Of them in sober earnest.
thIns, from sore toe e love affair VIII so IN,
and they S s ape al Tie time Soatns You
as a quarter, including young and lovely hns-
bend with pot Of money. where never use ,In to
na woudn IN
Rs t%edo aH ef b rm going out Of the
free ABOUT It. I've iaid away House and 1T
and a little to live on, and I'm going to quit
see 1no 81 ms f. cd
temers,1;htas promised to give me som, some steers
.ny Hn s SSstSn ad 81 's s
signifies nothing. for there are SO many OF us.
another. II she was really a Gypsy Queen
though. she couldn't have amounted TO much.
on the good Po s5 so hs dh 9s e a Hss
best lay pow is to take room in some quarter
Just on the border between the respectable and md
customers from both classes. Or course the
tough people come oftener. but the better class
" Il they are servants In rich families or young
school girls. You don't want to make any
Ra sn eou the sSsnes Sgs w st cut
looking i9sr such shinss: ara nv patronize
has told them hasn't come true Then 80, % lOp1s
Eea tel aeS 81 haGs hsH
e rSS Mr. s tsss S
Reep On comng until they ina ha H
penfng after all. Always tell a blonde girl she's
looks @elanehqiS and an broke Is up. but stili
viii soon esss That e other sr she
be really suffering. tell her that her lover still
SS and w BE WHERE as sa
the one you longing for, or something ike that
how er shs es VEIL Il
risk Of telling The s wh f
tha ss IS IS
awkward to be caught that way
This woman is probably right about the
the number Of clairvoyant signs. upon houses
in this city Is any Indication. there must be
ance H Tor carrying on the trade are cheap,
merely heavy curtain to divide and darken
the a Hnd r %f
stuck outside the door completes the outfit.
poorer 1t Is the reader the common flies are to
enter. There Is another class Of spider that
iaaariousiy tted1up apartments. With mystis s
things stuck al around but there are feW q
fortune telling is tho least and the least harm
full portion Of their business.
have been somewhat successful in this city.
s q D by g. Rs s eus
than ans $50 - line Of the would be blaef art
stage s one 81 JanauseHeks best scenes UM us is
where the jewish mother, Just reaching the
stolen in infancy. she lures the. villain to her
m m reads him The story Of lis lie from the
~ What do the cards say1" she exclaims in
Her hand. made up lean and bOny. pulls one
from the pack and filings it down face up on the
table.
full childI,they love It better than life. It lies
then with has start and fierce glance up at the
Other card on the table and bending over It.
goes on hesitatingly and brokenly:
The card says that a man crossed the path
Of the babe-a young mana -who-looks
Another, piercing glance into the Villains
eyes and then tercely:
What does he do-o-oP.
And 80 It goes on, she reading the story In
his eyes and telling It from the cards. until as
springs up and towers over the terrified wretch
n magnificent frenzy that is the climax OF
the play.
That style would not do for the fortune teller
OF tho day, although the system is the same
t6read the face and tell the result from the
cards or other device. There are more or less
clumsy mechanical means also used to assist
In the work OF beiooling. SUCH as recurring the
supponed to be invisible to tho fortuna teller.